Safety-razor.



D. W. WOOD.

SAFETY RAZOR.

APPLICATION FILED M111, 1912.

1,041,397. Patentd 0 1t.15,1912.

Illlll] ATTORNEYS DAVID WILSON WOOD, OF BRAZIL, INDIANA.

SAFETY-RAZOR.

earner.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented (let. 15,1912.

Application filed February 1,1912. Serial No. 674,751.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID W. W001), a citizen of the United States, anda resident of- Brazil, in the county of Clay and State of Indiana, haveinvented a new and Improved Safety-Razor, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to safety razors, and an object of my invention isto provide a safety razor which is adapted to all portions of the face,and which will give a trans versely shearing cut when drawnlongitudinally across the same.

A further object of my invention is to provide a razor simple inconstruction and convenient of manipulation in assembling and separatingof parts.

I attain the above outlined objects by mounting in a suitable form ofholder a thin flexible blade, the cutting edge of which is flexed inboth directions out of the plane of the blade, to form a corrugatedcutting ed e.

l teference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures, and in. which K Figure 1 is aside elevation showing a preferred embodiment of my invention, and

'also showing the holder in section on the line 1--1 of Fig. 2; Fig. 2is a plan view looking down upon the device, a portion of thehandlebeing omitted; Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 2 but showing the top ofthe holder with the cap and blade removed; Fig. 4 is a plan view of theblade; and Fig. 5 is a partial front elevation of Fig. 2, look ing inthe direction of the arrow.

Described more in detail, I have shown a holder 6, extending centrallyfrom the under side of which is a boss 7 and projecting angularly fromthis boss. is any suitable form of handle 8. The top ofthe holder isadapted to support a flat rectangular flexi ble blade 9, said holderhaving a curved upper surface, as shown more particularly in Fig. 1. Theholder 6 has teeth 10 extending from transversely opposite edges, toform a guard for the cutting edges 11 of the blade- 9. Disposed on topof the blade and having its under side conforming substantially to thecurved top of the holder 6, is a cap 12, depending centrally from whichcap is a bolt 13 projecting centrally through the boss 7 and held inposition by means of a milled nut 14 engaging the lower threaded end 15of the bolt and bearing on the boss, so as to draw said cap firmly intoengagement with the blade 9 and holder 6. The cap 12 has a series ofteeth- 16 extending through the edge thereof and disposed above andbetween the adjacent teeth 10 of the holder 6.

When the cap 12 is forced down on to the holder 6, the teeth 16 willdepress the flexible cutting edge 11 of the blade 9 against the teeth10, causing the cutting edge of the blade to assume the corrugated edge17, shown more particularly in Fig. 5. It will be noted that by thisarrangement, a transverse shearing cut will be obtained in drawing therazor across the face. It will also be noted by referring moreparticularly to Fig. 2, that the cutting edge 11 of the blade isdisposed between the line of edges of the holder and cap.

If desired, the cap may have depending lugs 18 adapted to pass throughopenings 19 in the blade, and adapted to be inserted in holes 20 in theholder, so as to hold the members from rotation as is common withdevices of this character, it being noted that there are four holes inthe blade 9, so that all four cutting edges of the rectangular blade maybe used.

Having thus described my invention, I

to secure by Letters claim as new and desire Patent:

1. In combination with a holder having spaced-apart teeth projectingfrom one side thereof, a normally flat resilient blade carried by saidholder and having its cutting edge resting on said teeth, and a capdisposed on said blade and having teeth overlapping the spacesbetweenthe teeth of the holder, whereby when said cap and holder are pressedtoward each other, the cutting edge of said blade will be flexed betweenthe sets of teeth, to form corrugations transversely of the plane of theblade.

2. A safety razor, comprising a holder rectangular in plan and having anupper face curved downwardly in opposite directions from a transversecentral line, each lower edge of saidcurved face being in the form ofspaced-apart teeth, a normally flat flexible blade adapted to rest on,said curved face,

said blade having a pair of oppositely-disposed cutting edges adapted torest on said teeth, and a cap carried by said holder having an underface conforming in configuration to the top faceof the holder, said caphaving teeth registering with the spaces between the teeth of the holderand adapted to bear upon said blade to curve the same and to corrugatethe opposite cutting edges of said blade.

3. A safety razor, comprising a holder rectangular in plan and having anupper face curved downwardly in opposite directions from a transversecentral line,"each lower edge of said curved face being in the form ofspaced-apart teeth, a normally flat flexibleblade adapted to rest onsaid curved face, said blade having a pair of oppositely-disposedcutting edges adapted to rest on said teeth, a cap carried by saidholder having an under face conforming in configuration to Loewe? thetop face of the holder, said cap having teeth registering with thespaces between the teeth of the holder and adapted to bear upon saidblade to curve the same and to corrugate the opposite cutting edges ofsaid blade, means carried by the holder for drawing said cap and holderfirmly into engagement, and means maintaining said blade in positionbetween said holder and cap. 7

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

DAVID WILSON WOOD. Witnesses:

CYNTHIA V. BURKE, JAMES A. MoNU'rr.

